Improvement in strikes for locks



@initrd 51am @aient @twine WILLIAM WEISNER, OF ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW MEXICO TERRITORY,

ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CLAUDIUS KIEFER.

Letters .Patent No. 99,039, dated January 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENTV IN STRIKES FOR LOCKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WEIsNER, of Elizabethtown, in the county of Colfax, and Territory of New Mexico, have invented a new and improved Strike for Mortise-Locks; `and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the alt to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication.A s

This invention relates to'improvements in strikes for mort-ise-locks or sliding bolts, and consists in the combination, with the said strikes, as commonly used, of plates, arranged in the mortises, to close the same when the bolt is withdrawn, to presenta more ornamental appearance, and to prevent the mortises from filling up by collections of dust and other matter.

Figure l represents a front elevation' of my improved strike, and

Figure 2 represents a sectionoi' the same, taken on the line x x of fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the strike, such as commonly used with mortise-lncks, or for sliding bolts for folding doors, drawers, chests, and the like.

As before stated, my invention consists inthe combination, with these strikes, of plates B, journaled at one end in lugs C, at theA rear side of the strikes, and arranged so that when the bolts are withdrawn, they will swing into the mortise and close the same, so that while the door is open and the strike exposed to view, it will present a. neater appearance.

The said plate B also excludes the dustand other matter which usually collect in the mortises, when exposed in the common way.

This plate B may be arranged to swing into the closing position by the action of gravity, when the strike is placed in vertical or overhead wallsfbut when placed in the iioor, it requires a spring or a counterbalance-weight to close it.

The arrangement which I prefer is a spring, D, coiled around a curved arm, E, fixed to the strike A, and another curved arm, E, fixed to the swinging plate B, the one, E, being slotted or grooved, and' The combination, with the strike for a mortise-lock n or sliding bolt, of a plate, B, hinged thereto, and arranged to swing into the mortse, to close the same, when the bolt is withdrawn,- and to be operated for closing either by springs or by gravity, substantially as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 14th day of September, 1869.

WILLIAM WEISNER.

Witnesses:

L. D. RownLL, JNO. GUTEIsEN. 

